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Detailed explanation-1: -Forty one passengers were killed and 50 injured when nine bogeys of Jagdalpur–Bhubaneswar Hirakhand Express derailed near Kuneru Railway Station in Komarada mandal of Vizianagaram district around 11.30 p.m. on Saturday.

Detailed explanation-2: -1 January – United States – A BNSF freight train strikes a landslide and derails near Bonner’s Ferry, Idaho. Both locomotives end up in the Kootenai River. Two crew are rescued by boat.

Detailed explanation-3: -Amtrak’s worst wreck in terms of deaths was the Sept. 22, 1993, derailment outside Mobile, Alabama, when the Sunset Limited plunged off a bridge and caught fire in the pre-dawn hours. Forty-seven passengers and crew were killed and 103 injured in what became known as the Big Bayou Canot rail accident.

Detailed explanation-4: -1. June 6, 1981: Bihar train disaster (500-800 Deaths) A passenger train fell into Baghmati river near Saharsa Bihar. Estimates of total deaths range from 500 to 800 or more.

Detailed explanation-5: -Earliest recorded train accident involving the death of passengers. 1837 Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad collision, Suffolk, Virginia; 3 killed plus dozens injured. Later in the year, a second accident resulted in ten injuries, with two of them ultimately dying.